Letter from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Calne, to Lady Beaumont, 1815 April 3 : autograph manuscript signed.

Asking if she still has the copy of a poem he wrote to Wordsworth and if she does would she send it on to him in Calne; discussing Wordsworth's poem "Excursion and saying "...the Poet's genius has not flagged;" commenting on a review of the Poem in the Edinburgh Review saying "If ever Guilt lay on a Writer's head, and if malignity, slander, hypocrisy and self-contradicting Baseness can constitute Guilt, I dare openly, and openly (please God!) I will, impeach the Writer of that Article of it;" explaining that he has spoken with men who have returned from France and stating "Napoleon's object at present is to embarrass the Allies, & to cool the enthusiasm of their Subjects. The latter he unfortunately will be too successful in;" asking if she has read his letters to Judge Fletcher and commenting on the rise of Jacobinism; saying "In this small town of Calne 500 Volunteers were raised in the last War - I am persuaded that 5 could not be raised now;" adding that his poems will be published in the middle of June and he has written three poems in ten days, containing 500 lines; adding that Mr. and Mrs. Morgan send their compliments to her and Sir George.